Ive seen some people mention at 4:40 the time says 22 hours on the save I'm bringing to NG+ so I wanted to clarify, that time is the time of day the save was made in military time, not time played. 2203 means 10:03 PM. My first playthrough was like 40 something hours.
Out of your 40 hours how much of that time is actually playing a game versus watching cutscene's? I swear from every new vendor to every 15mins to every loading into a area there is a hour long cutscene at 30fps....... I like final fantasy but this should have been a movie or show not a game.
@@aceofspades3018 With that logic you could say visual novels should be an anime, not a click-simulator. ffs, research the game you are playing and what kind of genre and narrative style it uses, before showing your ignorancy online.
@@AshNeeko I don't think you've played final fantasy before 13 lol. From 1-6 none of them had extensive cutscenes at all, and from 7-12 they had some great cinematics but no multiple hour long interruptions to gameplay, and with nowhere near as high a frequency. The "this should have been a movie" started with 13 and got worse with each entry.
The game had it's highs and lows. My favorite parts were anytime Cid was involved. I thought Ralph Ineson did a tremendous job of voicing him, and his chemistry with Clive (Ben Starr, also great voice acting) always had my attention.
Spoilers ahead I think the first third of the game is, easily, the height of 16 for most people. Afterwards, imo, it kinda falls off from the story front. Characters other than Cid were a bit underwhelming, especially Jill and Clive's relationship, which seemed like a pretty important aspect to the game. I think Dion and Joshua were okay, but again, we just don't get enough screentime for either of them for me to REALLY care as much as I should. In my ideal 16, the game would've jumped perspective more so that we could fully flesh out everyone else's storyline, at least a bit more than we got. But because Clive is the only playable mfer (except for kid Joshua in the intro for some reason lmao), we can't really have that.
@@T8-TR ***Spoilers**** . . . . . . . I agree about the story. In the first part of the game, a lot of politics and amazing characters like Benedikta and Cid, along explosive moments really create an amazing experience. A few things that go downhill from there ruin the story: 1) When Benedikta and Cid die, there are no characters of equal worth to replace them. Dion could have been great, but because the story fall short (explained in my next point) he doesn't get enough development. 2) The politics of the story gets neglected for the same generic "fight god, resist end of the world" plotlines we saw in so many JRPGs. As more as I progressed, the more I understood how "The Blight" aspect really prevents them from creating a true high fantasy setup and world building, because by the second half, the world is already pretty much in ruin and that's the only thing that matters. . These points are are what I wanted to point out, but in general the entire story gets dumbed down after Benedikta and Cid die, so, in the second part, after the time skip. It's really a shame because I feel there was so much potential.
Awesome review! Loved the gameplay and the first 1/3. Super gripping story setup, very compelling character arcs, engaging combat system, excitingly diverse world Last 2/3 I felt everything collapsed; nearly every character became less compelling in service of creating spectacle, later abilities feel underwhelming or unfun to use, and the story's power scaling started to feel random and handwave-y. Also got sick of collecting cow toenails for villagers
@@SuperFizzah you need me to spell it out? It's because he sucks at the game that's the other reason, the dude is bad at the game. You happy now that you forced my hand to spread hate online??
Bro im not even into FF like that, and i really enjoyed FF16. I loved everything even with side quests, they were actually interesting or red herrings thinking that they gonna be boring, but then they use the characters you helped to drive the story forward with anchor(emotion). (the village you visit before returning to phoenix gate is an example). I loved being able to pause and access the codex to understand context. So important, I want to see more games do this for newcomers into an IP. This games combat was fun too. Not perfect, but its 100% serviceable and satisfying once you have all your abilities unlocked and buffed up. I want to see more of this type of storytelling. The Grimdark with Hope is so fun.
I absolutely love FF16, having been there since FF1 on the NES at 10 years old. Some people can't get beyond the changes or different systems from the earlier entries, such as the combat system. I was more interested in the characters and storytelling, which FF16 excels at.
What did you think of that arc where the party falls into the most obvious trap ever, and Kupka wants to force Clive to watch an execution, but proceeds to start the execution without him anyway? Just a mess of chaotic and comedic events that looked like a total clown show. That’s one of the first examples that comes to mind when I think about where the game’s writing flaws are. There are definitely awesome moments throughout this game, but they’re mixed with these moments of what could they have been thinking allowing this into the final game?
Amazing characters, story and setpiece moments but you’re right the gameplay does not hold up for the length of the game. It has *such* a strong foundation and they just never build on it. Also the game being so easy it never forces you to try anything new. Anyway, still loved the game. Great review.
i feel like the progression system is a symptom of CBU3's MMO resume. FFXIV streamlined the progression where its easy to get into hardcore content, ultimate being the exception. this is really nice for people who dont make the MMo their second job but also feels unrewarding to people who dont usually raid. Also i think having final fantasy mode from the get go whould be nice. i like 15 but for some reason i usually dont resonate that much with the Nomura style games, 16 turned out to be one of my favs, but i think story wise shadowbringers till 6.0 endwalker is CBU3s peak narrativwise. compared to matsuno, maehiros aproach to writing is good but feels less focused. if they ever going todo another single player game with the fftactics world vibe, then i hope thed use matsuno for worldbuilding and ishikawa for fleshing out characters
The this being a CBU3 game is very apparent, for those who have been playing FFXIV to how the story beats play out, map design etc. One criticism I have heard about is side quests and its design, FFXIV does suffer from this as well, in some cases this is where the get things under the radar and you find very compelling world building narrative bits that are not just fetch quests. I am somewhere halfway in, I am enjoying it so far the story is ok, with moving back to a medieval inspired setting wish there was more (if any) fantasy races that are friendly we have a single Moogle, and that seemed just there to be there, because allegedly Moogles do not exist. Imagine a fight like the Good King Moggle Mog XII, it is silly in it's premise and depending on who you ask a little sadistic, I guess my point is FFXVI is missing some of the levity, some of that silliness.
If you actually look at exactly what Maehiro has worked on in XIV it becomes clear that he's a trope writer. Pretty much everything he's written has been derivative he just has better writers working with him on XIV to pick up his slack.
I liked the game but its really flawed, my thoughts (jusr started watching the vid): 1) Games too easy for being so combat and action focused 2) Before you unlock 3 eikons the combat feels so basic its crazy how bad it is, with 2 its decent 3) Side quests while some do a great job at world building, SUCK HARD 3) Item progression is awful but classic FF games and older JRPGS were too, visit a store in a new town, buy new sword, findings in hidden chests, etc. Not jusyifying it at all. Loved the story and darker tone of the game This may sound too harsh but I actually enjoyed the game anyways so theres that, but I can see its flaws clearly
I really wanted to love ff16, especially coming from creative business unit 3 and ff14 being my most played game of all time. But man, the combat becomes so redundant, and progression is such a joke, I found myself forcing myself to play it by the 20h mark just to see the ending. The game has its highs for sure (performances, story, the bahamut fight oh my god) but the lows stand out just as much, like why even have an item shop when all you buy is a weapon upgrade for +1 atk? Why am I rewarded for exploration with…. 5 gil?? Also, the lack of difficulty at launch really shows. I’m not replaying the game just to finally play the game at a nice difficulty. Just so many odd decisions, then the lack of a party so the gameplay loop becomes repetitive.
This is what kind of gave me pause in getting the game and why I'm not looking forward to Dragon Age VG. Action focused gameplay is fun. However, if its too easy or simply not that deep, there is NO reason to try to expand it out to 50-60 hours. Long JRPGs that are successful are giving you new enemies and ways to fight those enemies all the way into the final act. Having an easy to learn combat system balanced around easy enemies is fine for a 20 odd hour game. But for 60 plus? There needs to be more meat on the bone.
For me there is a core issue with Action RPG. For me it fel like "lets take the worst parts of a JRPG and combined that with the worst part of a WRPG." It seem that only soul-like get away with it but some want less of the RPG elements in them.
@@user-gm4kv2my4unah veilguard is probably gonna have great combat/progression, and it has 6 difficulties or something so I’m sure you can find a challenge in there. If anything it might suffer in some of the character stuff.
I was equally disappointed, for similar reasons. I would go as far as to say that this game is awful. Ff rebirth was playable, almost great. But honestly until FF goes back to turn based combat, all is lost.
I really do think it hurts the game for a lot of players that you can't up the difficulty until you've already gone through the whole story at least once. Though I find this decision unsurprising coming from CBU3 since it works the exact same way in FFXIV.
I also think some fights go on wayyy to long and it hurts the combat. Enemies take too much damage. The core idea of the combat is good and fun but needs refinement.
I got the Platinum on PS5, and finished both DLCs. FF16 is one of my favorites in the series, along with FF4 and FF6. Clive is easily my favorite protagonist in all of Final Fantasy from a character perspective, plus he feels fun to play as. Now I must say that I played FF14 for 10 years, so I felt very familiar with the side quest structure. In general, FF16 feels a lot like a single player action version of FF14, which makes sense. People who want the traditional turn based party system will be happier with FF7 rebirth, but I personally found FF16 to be a breath of fresh air.
Game makers need to grasp the reality that most gamers will only play through a game one time. There are just way too many games to warrant multiple playthroughs of any game. So they need to break away from using replaying to game at harder skills as a core mechanism.
I think this is a really great review, but I would have wished for you to talk a little more in-depth about how Arcade Mode works, since it's not only the endgame, but it functions entirely different than the rest of the game. So, throughout the two walkthroughs of the game, the game teaches you that damage is king. Destroy small stuff quickly, stagger big stuff and then deal tons of damage. If you go at Arcade Mode with this approach, you will never get more than a B-Rank. Arcade Mode in its essence, expects you to squeeze out each enemy like a lemon for points, having to artificially keep them alive to spam as many Green/Rainbow point moves as possible. This approach kinda turned away most of the possible players of the mode, since it is like a relearning the game. But once you got into the thing, it's really motivating and feel like a legend with every S-Rank you gain. That being said, Cure casters and damage checks can go to hell.
Everyone should download the mod for this game which unlocks the FPS during cutscenes so theyre not stuck at 30fps. The mod also adds wide-screen support.
To those familiar with action games I would also strongly recommend the mod that increases difficulty by mainly making enemies do double damage. With it you have to at least pay some attention to what enemies are doing and you don't fall asleep mashing your way through every encounter.
Great ideas, occasionally piss-poor execution. Ended up checking out and deleting the game because it was eating up a MASSIVE amount of space on my PS5’s storage, and I had other games i was enjoying more (RDR2, Rogue Trader)
I guess I'm going to get it on PC and give it a replay especially since I didn't even know it even had DLC. But man by the end of the game I was wanting to bash my head against the wall with some of the side quests. Hands down some of the most beautiful boss fights in gaming though, and a really good story.
@warm-heartedreaction6191 there's no padding if you ignore the padding? I don't get this argument 'just ignore it' it's over half the games run time. Just cause the content is optional doesn't make it fine for that content to be garbage. Rebirth has some terrible side content.
I burnt out on this game about 75% of the way through. Not what I want from a FF game. Maybe if the is game didn’t carry the FF brand they would’ve felt more free to right-size the game. That’s what I thought until I finally got around to FF7 remake. It was so well paced with a similar action forward approach. Made XVI feel like even more of a disappointment.
@@Voss_Man I'm not surprised. I'm convinced that a lot of games I play and how much I like them is random chance. That if I play a game at the right time, I will love it or the wrong time and think its "meh". So much is baked into expectations, what you just finished playing, and a thousand other factors. I started FF7R 3x before it clicked and I just fell in love with it.
I can't get over how the combat system is almost an exact copy of the new summoner from FFXIV. Which has had many complaints for lacking depth. FF has very much been going for spectacle over substance. Big awesome flashy moments are cool and all but they shouldn't come at the expense of gameplay, otherwise you may as well just make a movie.
I thought it had its good points, but quit around the 80-90% mark, because I just got tired of the combat. If they had made it so that you could spam your specials more freely (lower CDs), or if you had access to more than four at a time, so that you could swap between them fluidly, then it would have been a lot more fun, but too much of the combat boiled down to spamming normals.
my most anticipated review, i’ll probably pick this up on a sale, all the boring side quest bloat i think is gonna detract from my experience personally
@@tmbocelot Don't be disingenuous. It has one alternate outfit for Clive, Joshua, and Jill, and one alternate skin for Torgal and Ambrosia. That's literally it, and they were added 3 months post-launch so almost no one got a chance to use them on their 1st playthroughs. It's better than nothing but it's still unbelievably barebones, like everything in this game.
Glad you liked it! It's certainly not perfect but I definitely felt like it's a game that'll be in my heart forever. The game has high highs and low lows, BUT I think the lows actually work in benefit of the highs, making them shine more brightly.
your review must be the most fair take out of everything on internet I bought this game expecting to be full blown action rpg with banger music ,have great time on PS5 year ago and Platinum it
I feel like they got a lot of the big things right, but really fell down on the small details. They should have done more to encourage mixing up your build as you got new powers, better paced the side quests, added a little depth to the crafting, etc... But I enjoyed the story and the world, and the gameplay.
I enjoyed this game, combat was fun, but I really didn’t like the siloed approach to the maps, and the complete lack of “RPG” systems really killed my desire to play more after initially beating the game
an incredibly level headed and fair review, which is incredibly refreshing. most other takes on it are very polarized. I've been a huge fan of this dev team's other work, so it took me a while to really acknowledge the flaws you've articulated really well, but in the end it's still a very good, but flawed game. I hope they learn some lessons and improve for the next one.
It's a solid 8/10 for me overall. pretty fun action game with great spectacle. Terrible final fantasy game though. As a FF game it's like a 4/10 for me. It was fun enough but not what I wanted.
Played the demo and while I liked the story I didn't quite enjoy the combat which I felt was more flash than substance. Too many button presses to kill most enemies, too many encounters that look like some world ending cataclysmic event, which felt silly for a more adult themed story. It was actually quite disappointing for me when I realized I haven't played a new FF game since 12 and playing 6-12 + tactics and some of the other squaresoft games of the snes/psx era were some of my fondest moments playing video games as a youth. Oh well. I might pick it up on a steeper discount but right now there's way too many new games coming out or games releasing out of early access that I have in my backlog.
I gave up playing this game after 12 hours. I think the story was sacrificed for something that was not worth it. It was as indulgent as FFXV's story was. Characters turned into nothing more than caricatures. No one said you cannot have fun with the characters, if they have sad back stories, but apparently FFXVI forgot that. They should have taken a page out of Yakuza's playbook and added some fun side quests to get more mileage out of these characters. I was tired of all of them after just 12 hours of gameplay.
This sounds/looks like FFXIII all over again, except they went full-on action combat here, which is what they always wanted to do with FFXIII. Linear hallways and "hunt" missions galore! *edit* Also I think non-FF fans will actually really dig this game, since it shares so very little from the franchise. (not a bad thing objectively, just different)
So I eventually just stopped playing, I’ll go back and finish it at some point. I stopped about 2 hours after Titan. I really liked Garuda’s arc/character and va. I really liked pieces of this game, but on the whole it really went ‘game of thrones’ for the sake of being complex. That’s kind of a shame, since the characters really were the best part imho. Clive is a bit weak, but he grew on me. Cid is fantastic, Joshua is great so is Martha etc; some of the main enemies have good depth. Idk, it was almost there. The lack of customization and gear depth hurt it a bit, and the arpg nature was okay, if a bit underwhelming. Making FF a character action game probably wasn’t what I, personally, wanted but I gave it a good shot
Game is not for me. I finished most FFs from 1 to 13-2. (excluding 11 and 14 as those are MMOs) But with the start of Lightning Returns and the whole shift towards action combat I personally lost all interest because I suck at action combat. It just isn't fun. So in my books FF is dead and I switched to other more classical JRPGs like Chained Echoes.
While you’re correct, if you went into this thinking it was laden with traditional JRPG systems then I suppose you were either misinformed or unable to adapt. Square misses the ball sometimes but for what they aimed for they really nailed the DMC vibe while holding on to more mature FF aligned themes. They couldn’t have made it more clear that they weren’t going with a traditional JRPG route with their pre launch hype. I think the old heads who still think an ATB system is relevant will always be mad though. I used to be one of them but ended up loving this action style.
@@geneal1989and I really didn’t like FF7R. A worse take on the story, dialogue bloat with side characters, same problem with side quests, and not picking traditional ATB or action made it mediocre in both imo
@@DL-cs2cjyeah I couldn’t finish it. The combat felt so repetitive and dull, too many hallway walking moments and it was painful listening to the corny dialogue out loud with conversation choreography
@@DL-cs2cj Thought it was gonna have at least elemental weaknesses, a meaningful gear system and manageable party members. Even FF15 had those. Granted, party management was added through updates for FF15.
See I messed up because I decided to do every side quest during my first playthrough. Man by the time I finished the game I couldn’t even tell you what the plot was about.
The side quests by the last third of the game were atrocious. I joked with myself at the time how these green markers are like a plague and it's spreading. They are so generic, and they kept coming in massive numbers.
Hi! Thanks a lot for the review. Very instructive as always. I was waiting for its release on PC since its PS5 launch. I haven't played a Final Fantasy since FF12 and I had wonderful times on Mystic Quest, FF9, FF10 and FF12. I tried FF7 remake for +-10 hours but it didn't convince me. I think I'll avoid this one as well at the end. Too many other great games to play thus choices to be made.
While I found the combat to be fun and solid it's issue is that it lacks weapon variety, if Clive not only gained the Eikon abilities but also a weapon with different moveset it would help the system from getting stale. For instance gaining Bahamut's abilities also gives Clive a lance that includes the signature _jump attack_ from the Dragoons or Titan's allowed Clive to fight bare-handed like a Monk, it would give variety while also a very _pettite_ job system like in some of the classic games. Also visual customization would have helped, aside form Clive sword, none of the equipment visually reflects on him and to makes matters worse the game does provide the ability to switch outfits for Clive and some other character but is barely worth it since all of them just get *a single alternate outfit* and aside from maybe Jill the defaults look better.
Bro is definitely a magician there's no way he can complete all these games in a 24-hour day! Took me a week just to get through Space Marine 2 and I like that game LOL I'm just joking so save yourself some time of replying that he posts his steam page publicly to see his completion rate.
Been no-lifing this since Monday, and I'm just finishing. Great game, and it made me a fan of Square. Good time since they're free of Sony money hats. The one thing I'll disagree with is that the fetch quests are pointless... All but a couple had great stories to them.
So flashy and quick... no my cup of tea. Probably will buy it during sale and play on easiest difficulty/with "easy mode" items equiped. Thats not true FF game for me...
So far I'm enjoying it. I love the PS1 era of final fantasy and would have preferred a party based rpg. For that reason I wasn't planning on playing it. But I picked up the demo and enjoyed it enough that I bought it. I still don't love the change to action but what they did really well is that they made the easy mode option still feel engaging enough to not make it too much of a chore to enjoy the rest of what it offers. Especially in boss fights. They really are spectacular.
I'm waiting for this to price drop to 60 or 50 percent. I don't care much for the direction of FF of late. FF15 was a step away from what I wanted from an FF game...FF Remake was as well. I haven't played the other newer ones yet. So while I still want to experience these games as an FF franchise fan...I'm in no rush.
I loved it and played it 3 times already. The story is gripping, presentation is great and the combat is serviceable. Most importantly, the lore was intriguing. I wish a XVI-2 or prequel or spin off is in the works because not only I feel attached to Clive Jill Joshua etc, I also feel attached to Valisthea as a whole
Is there even any point to do the side quests apart from the achievements? I doubt they give out any substantial gear that could've excuse the lack of story these things have.... If I ever play this game is may be one of the few RPGs where I actively work towards ignoring the side quests and just do the story quests for all the epic stuff and interesting story that is in there. Everythin else is just a waste of time.
this game was fun when it was on point but it had so much down points that i will never replay this game ever again. i also refused to go through Final Fantasy mode after the slog to clear it the first time. Story was good though. They def did a good job on this game but def on my low for FF games. It ranks just above FF13 for me.
Dude I loved this game, first final fantasy game I ever played and I just was completely enthralled by it. Tried to get into the other ones but I’m not just a turn based kinda guy, hoping the next one follows the same core gameplay with more hardcore rpg elements integrated into it.
The main advice I would give to people is to just avoid sidequests and only do the main story. Then it's a pretty streamlined experience. The story and voice acting are amazing imo and everyone should experience it.
I’ve been very critical of this game, but one thing I’ll unabashedly praise is the soundtrack. I adore Final Fantasy OST’s but didn’t think any new entry would be able to break my top 3. (1. Final Fantasy 7 - 2. Final Fantasy 10 - 3. Final Fantasy 16, which knocked FF9 down)
I enjoyed the main story line a lot. That said, the volume of side quests felt excessive. They could have quartered the side quest volume and pushed that development into post-game stuff and it would have felt much better.
TBH, since FF 12, I have been a bit disappointed with the art styles. 12 was alright, but had this.....generic anime feel to me. Had things I really liked and things I really didnt. 13 felt cool, futuristic ish. Maybe a bit in the feel of FF7/FF8 crossbreed imo. And then its just generic anime dark brooder emo guy look. Nothing against any of the games gameplay or stories. Just the art is overwhelmingly generic. The vastly different looking 3d worlds of 7,8,9,10 all felt unique to their stories and styles. 12,13,14,15,16 More often than not look like super generic compared to the older titles. At least I am not enjoying the locations of the worlds in the newer series as I did in other games. Maybe its nostalgia Maybe it was jumps in GPU power that made them feel more unique.
I honestly haven’t enjoyed FF after 12. I think 15’s story was one of the best but it was told so poorly it’s almost just an insult to the player. The characters and their back stories are really good but nearly every aspect of the story thing and flow of the game are executed so badly it’s infuriating.
@@kbutta01 That whole gang of emo looking dudes turned me off at the trailers. I loved the diversity and style of characters inthe series, alwayws liked Characters like Red XIII, cait sith, Vivi, Freya, Khimari. It was always neat to see those odd characters in the universe, so when I saw the main cast is all white dudes, I kinda lost my taste for the series. I borrowed 15 from a friend but never made it past a few hours in.
@@dudarino666 I would at least recommend listening to a summary of the story and the characters. Such a good story it’s just told is the worst imaginable way. Had it been told in a classic high fantasy style it would’ve been incredible.
Honestly for their first try on a character action rpg it is not bad if they would iron out the flaws in the gear system ,quests and ad elemental affinity (fire enemy immune to fire) in a sequel it should be incredible
I do and this one is, problem is that sometimes it takes RUclips forever to actually put them on the video's timeline. Reviews always have them in the description as well.
My problem with FF16 came after the timeskip. It went the way of GOT where the sense of distance and time disappeared. The worst examples are the battle in the dessert and the ocean rescue.
Great review. Pretty much if you like God of War, DBZ and Game of Thrones then you’ll probably like this game lol. I think it was a good one off game. I would like to see a more party based rpg for 17 though.
I've played the game 100% as well, and for me the story was good, for the most, although boring in the middle part. The problem I have with the storytelling in FFXVI is that cbu3 relied heavily on games of throne. They did not just get few ideas, they took charachters/concepts directly from the tv show and put them into the game, and the result is that for me the story was not that original, since it mimicked GoT in many ways.
Ive seen some people mention at 4:40 the time says 22 hours on the save I'm bringing to NG+ so I wanted to clarify, that time is the time of day the save was made in military time, not time played. 2203 means 10:03 PM. My first playthrough was like 40 something hours.
Out of your 40 hours how much of that time is actually playing a game versus watching cutscene's? I swear from every new vendor to every 15mins to every loading into a area there is a hour long cutscene at 30fps....... I like final fantasy but this should have been a movie or show not a game.
@@aceofspades3018I don’t think you’ve played final fantasy before 16 lol
@@aceofspades3018 With that logic you could say visual novels should be an anime, not a click-simulator. ffs, research the game you are playing and what kind of genre and narrative style it uses, before showing your ignorancy online.
@@AshNeekoI’ve played a couple and they definitely aren’t this bad tbh.
@@AshNeeko I don't think you've played final fantasy before 13 lol. From 1-6 none of them had extensive cutscenes at all, and from 7-12 they had some great cinematics but no multiple hour long interruptions to gameplay, and with nowhere near as high a frequency. The "this should have been a movie" started with 13 and got worse with each entry.
The best way I can describe the flaws of this game is you can tell it's an MMO team's first try at single player.
Beat the game back when it first lunch on ps5 and I agree 100% feels like your playing FF14 quests 99% of the time are just fetch quest.
you put my feelings so perfectly into words. the minute i saw the side questing im like ah fuck am i playing ff14? it sucked.
Yep that was my first thought after experiencing it.
Haha yeah it's so trippy to go from the most basic of basic fetch quests to the most epic of epic scenes, still enjoying it a shitton :D
I would never have thought to put it like that, but you're absolutely right.
The game had it's highs and lows. My favorite parts were anytime Cid was involved. I thought Ralph Ineson did a tremendous job of voicing him, and his chemistry with Clive (Ben Starr, also great voice acting) always had my attention.
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I think the first third of the game is, easily, the height of 16 for most people.
Afterwards, imo, it kinda falls off from the story front. Characters other than Cid were a bit underwhelming, especially Jill and Clive's relationship, which seemed like a pretty important aspect to the game. I think Dion and Joshua were okay, but again, we just don't get enough screentime for either of them for me to REALLY care as much as I should.
In my ideal 16, the game would've jumped perspective more so that we could fully flesh out everyone else's storyline, at least a bit more than we got. But because Clive is the only playable mfer (except for kid Joshua in the intro for some reason lmao), we can't really have that.
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I agree about the story.
In the first part of the game, a lot of politics and amazing characters like Benedikta and Cid, along explosive moments really create an amazing experience. A few things that go downhill from there ruin the story:
1) When Benedikta and Cid die, there are no characters of equal worth to replace them. Dion could have been great, but because the story fall short (explained in my next point) he doesn't get enough development.
2) The politics of the story gets neglected for the same generic "fight god, resist end of the world" plotlines we saw in so many JRPGs. As more as I progressed, the more I understood how "The Blight" aspect really prevents them from creating a true high fantasy setup and world building, because by the second half, the world is already pretty much in ruin and that's the only thing that matters.
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These points are are what I wanted to point out, but in general the entire story gets dumbed down after Benedikta and Cid die, so, in the second part, after the time skip. It's really a shame because I feel there was so much potential.
Awesome review! Loved the gameplay and the first 1/3. Super gripping story setup, very compelling character arcs, engaging combat system, excitingly diverse world
Last 2/3 I felt everything collapsed; nearly every character became less compelling in service of creating spectacle, later abilities feel underwhelming or unfun to use, and the story's power scaling started to feel random and handwave-y.
Also got sick of collecting cow toenails for villagers
I played this game for three days straight and I haven’t even finished the story.
Mortym is a machine.
Or, you know, it's because of the other thing
The hell have you been doing if you still aren't done with the story after 72 hrs lol
@@CJ-wh7ikwhat thing? Being vague, like that, doesn't work.
@@SuperFizzah you need me to spell it out? It's because he sucks at the game that's the other reason, the dude is bad at the game. You happy now that you forced my hand to spread hate online??
I mean he 100% them crpg games, these action rpg is too easy for him
Bro im not even into FF like that, and i really enjoyed FF16. I loved everything even with side quests, they were actually interesting or red herrings thinking that they gonna be boring, but then they use the characters you helped to drive the story forward with anchor(emotion). (the village you visit before returning to phoenix gate is an example). I loved being able to pause and access the codex to understand context. So important, I want to see more games do this for newcomers into an IP. This games combat was fun too. Not perfect, but its 100% serviceable and satisfying once you have all your abilities unlocked and buffed up. I want to see more of this type of storytelling. The Grimdark with Hope is so fun.
I absolutely love FF16, having been there since FF1 on the NES at 10 years old. Some people can't get beyond the changes or different systems from the earlier entries, such as the combat system. I was more interested in the characters and storytelling, which FF16 excels at.
What did you think of that arc where the party falls into the most obvious trap ever, and Kupka wants to force Clive to watch an execution, but proceeds to start the execution without him anyway? Just a mess of chaotic and comedic events that looked like a total clown show. That’s one of the first examples that comes to mind when I think about where the game’s writing flaws are. There are definitely awesome moments throughout this game, but they’re mixed with these moments of what could they have been thinking allowing this into the final game?
The new mic sounds great!
He sounds younger haha
@@leotgo For sure, sounded like it could be a younger brother 😂
It sounded so different I thought it was a stand-in.
Ive been sick, my voice is just starting to recover here
Amazing characters, story and setpiece moments but you’re right the gameplay does not hold up for the length of the game. It has *such* a strong foundation and they just never build on it. Also the game being so easy it never forces you to try anything new. Anyway, still loved the game. Great review.
i feel like the progression system is a symptom of CBU3's MMO resume. FFXIV streamlined the progression where its easy to get into hardcore content, ultimate being the exception. this is really nice for people who dont make the MMo their second job but also feels unrewarding to people who dont usually raid. Also i think having final fantasy mode from the get go whould be nice. i like 15 but for some reason i usually dont resonate that much with the Nomura style games, 16 turned out to be one of my favs, but i think story wise shadowbringers till 6.0 endwalker is CBU3s peak narrativwise. compared to matsuno, maehiros aproach to writing is good but feels less focused. if they ever going todo another single player game with the fftactics world vibe, then i hope thed use matsuno for worldbuilding and ishikawa for fleshing out characters
The this being a CBU3 game is very apparent, for those who have been playing FFXIV to how the story beats play out, map design etc. One criticism I have heard about is side quests and its design, FFXIV does suffer from this as well, in some cases this is where the get things under the radar and you find very compelling world building narrative bits that are not just fetch quests.
I am somewhere halfway in, I am enjoying it so far the story is ok, with moving back to a medieval inspired setting wish there was more (if any) fantasy races that are friendly we have a single Moogle, and that seemed just there to be there, because allegedly Moogles do not exist.
Imagine a fight like the Good King Moggle Mog XII, it is silly in it's premise and depending on who you ask a little sadistic, I guess my point is FFXVI is missing some of the levity, some of that silliness.
If you actually look at exactly what Maehiro has worked on in XIV it becomes clear that he's a trope writer. Pretty much everything he's written has been derivative he just has better writers working with him on XIV to pick up his slack.
I liked the game but its really flawed, my thoughts (jusr started watching the vid):
1) Games too easy for being so combat and action focused
2) Before you unlock 3 eikons the combat feels so basic its crazy how bad it is, with 2 its decent
3) Side quests while some do a great job at world building, SUCK HARD
3) Item progression is awful but classic FF games and older JRPGS were too, visit a store in a new town, buy new sword, findings in hidden chests, etc. Not jusyifying it at all.
Loved the story and darker tone of the game
This may sound too harsh but I actually enjoyed the game anyways so theres that, but I can see its flaws clearly
I had much more fun with this than I did God of War: Ragnarok.
Same hete
I really wanted to love ff16, especially coming from creative business unit 3 and ff14 being my most played game of all time. But man, the combat becomes so redundant, and progression is such a joke, I found myself forcing myself to play it by the 20h mark just to see the ending. The game has its highs for sure (performances, story, the bahamut fight oh my god) but the lows stand out just as much, like why even have an item shop when all you buy is a weapon upgrade for +1 atk? Why am I rewarded for exploration with…. 5 gil?? Also, the lack of difficulty at launch really shows. I’m not replaying the game just to finally play the game at a nice difficulty. Just so many odd decisions, then the lack of a party so the gameplay loop becomes repetitive.
This is what kind of gave me pause in getting the game and why I'm not looking forward to Dragon Age VG. Action focused gameplay is fun. However, if its too easy or simply not that deep, there is NO reason to try to expand it out to 50-60 hours. Long JRPGs that are successful are giving you new enemies and ways to fight those enemies all the way into the final act. Having an easy to learn combat system balanced around easy enemies is fine for a 20 odd hour game. But for 60 plus? There needs to be more meat on the bone.
For me there is a core issue with Action RPG. For me it fel like "lets take the worst parts of a JRPG and combined that with the worst part of a WRPG."
It seem that only soul-like get away with it but some want less of the RPG elements in them.
@@user-gm4kv2my4unah veilguard is probably gonna have great combat/progression, and it has 6 difficulties or something so I’m sure you can find a challenge in there. If anything it might suffer in some of the character stuff.
Definetly agree with this take.
I was equally disappointed, for similar reasons. I would go as far as to say that this game is awful. Ff rebirth was playable, almost great. But honestly until FF goes back to turn based combat, all is lost.
I wanted to like this game more, but the combat is so easy it never felt engaging.
I really do think it hurts the game for a lot of players that you can't up the difficulty until you've already gone through the whole story at least once. Though I find this decision unsurprising coming from CBU3 since it works the exact same way in FFXIV.
I also think some fights go on wayyy to long and it hurts the combat. Enemies take too much damage. The core idea of the combat is good and fun but needs refinement.
I got the Platinum on PS5, and finished both DLCs. FF16 is one of my favorites in the series, along with FF4 and FF6. Clive is easily my favorite protagonist in all of Final Fantasy from a character perspective, plus he feels fun to play as. Now I must say that I played FF14 for 10 years, so I felt very familiar with the side quest structure. In general, FF16 feels a lot like a single player action version of FF14, which makes sense. People who want the traditional turn based party system will be happier with FF7 rebirth, but I personally found FF16 to be a breath of fresh air.
I disagree on respec I like experiment so it's a godsend to me. lol
Same, I find games that lack it or limit it super annoying.
Game makers need to grasp the reality that most gamers will only play through a game one time. There are just way too many games to warrant multiple playthroughs of any game. So they need to break away from using replaying to game at harder skills as a core mechanism.
I highly recommend black myth: Wukong. It’s an amazing game.
I think this is a really great review, but I would have wished for you to talk a little more in-depth about how Arcade Mode works, since it's not only the endgame, but it functions entirely different than the rest of the game.
So, throughout the two walkthroughs of the game, the game teaches you that damage is king. Destroy small stuff quickly, stagger big stuff and then deal tons of damage. If you go at Arcade Mode with this approach, you will never get more than a B-Rank.
Arcade Mode in its essence, expects you to squeeze out each enemy like a lemon for points, having to artificially keep them alive to spam as many Green/Rainbow point moves as possible.
This approach kinda turned away most of the possible players of the mode, since it is like a relearning the game. But once you got into the thing, it's really motivating and feel like a legend with every S-Rank you gain. That being said, Cure casters and damage checks can go to hell.
I loved this game.
Everyone should download the mod for this game which unlocks the FPS during cutscenes so theyre not stuck at 30fps. The mod also adds wide-screen support.
To those familiar with action games I would also strongly recommend the mod that increases difficulty by mainly making enemies do double damage. With it you have to at least pay some attention to what enemies are doing and you don't fall asleep mashing your way through every encounter.
The first thing I did lol the 30fps in cutscenes felt off putting. Strange choice to lock the fps.
I mean, to each their own but I have never been bothered by 30fps.
Why bot 24fps to make it at least movie like?
@@Blasted2Oblivion it's jarring going from 120 in gameplay to 30 in cutscenes. I don't have an issue as long as it's consistent.
Have you played FF7 Remake on PC? Will you play FF7 Rebirth on PC when that comes out?
he's a pc gamer only so will prolly play it when it comes out!
@@levitastic that’s why I mentioned PC twice in my comment. Reread it.
@@Duckman8213 i know what u said, whats ur point, why even ask the question if u know the answer.
@@levitastic You lemon he asked if he played FF7 remake. Learn to read lol
Would be really interested to hear Mort's opinion on FF7 remake!
It's a great 15 hour game stretched over 50. There was zero challenge, I think I died once through pure laziness.
I straight up didn’t let myself use any items as a way to make it have even a crumb of challenge
idk i would have liked it a touch longer personally
It's a 10/10 anime with 7/10 gameplay. It averages to a 8.5/10 for me but the story is epic enough to keep me interested.
Final Fantasies have never been particularly challenging. Party got superficially wounded? Running out of MP? Just pop a megaelixer...
So it's a pretty typical modern Final Fantasy then. 9, 10, 13, 13-3 were all exactly the same.
Great ideas, occasionally piss-poor execution. Ended up checking out and deleting the game because it was eating up a MASSIVE amount of space on my PS5’s storage, and I had other games i was enjoying more (RDR2, Rogue Trader)
I guess I'm going to get it on PC and give it a replay especially since I didn't even know it even had DLC. But man by the end of the game I was wanting to bash my head against the wall with some of the side quests. Hands down some of the most beautiful boss fights in gaming though, and a really good story.
FF7 Rebirth and FF16 are the sultans of fluff. They’re good games but it’s so much padding to boost the amount of hours spent on the games
FF16 is definitely a game where making it shorter, would be beneficial for the game.
rebirth there no padding if you just go main story even side stuff is worthwhile
@warm-heartedreaction6191 there's no padding if you ignore the padding? I don't get this argument 'just ignore it' it's over half the games run time. Just cause the content is optional doesn't make it fine for that content to be garbage. Rebirth has some terrible side content.
@@warm-heartedreaction6191Rebirth having no padding? Almost every review has stated as much, and even the fans admit it was a bit much.
@@warm-heartedreaction6191I don’t know what game you played, but Rebirth was a slog to go through .
I was going to wait for a sale on this. Then I played the demo and bought it the same night. Great game.
I burnt out on this game about 75% of the way through. Not what I want from a FF game. Maybe if the is game didn’t carry the FF brand they would’ve felt more free to right-size the game. That’s what I thought until I finally got around to FF7 remake. It was so well paced with a similar action forward approach. Made XVI feel like even more of a disappointment.
I have the same pov you have of XVI with FF7R lol. Find the pacing and combat even worse in that than XVI personally.
@@Voss_Man I'm not surprised. I'm convinced that a lot of games I play and how much I like them is random chance. That if I play a game at the right time, I will love it or the wrong time and think its "meh". So much is baked into expectations, what you just finished playing, and a thousand other factors. I started FF7R 3x before it clicked and I just fell in love with it.
@@LuckbeaSladey Ah well, I'm glad you enjoyed FF7R either way!
I can't get over how the combat system is almost an exact copy of the new summoner from FFXIV. Which has had many complaints for lacking depth.
FF has very much been going for spectacle over substance. Big awesome flashy moments are cool and all but they shouldn't come at the expense of gameplay, otherwise you may as well just make a movie.
My graphics card can't play the FF16 😢. Amd 580
In my opinion. The good parts far out weigh any weaker aspects.
Its genuinely my favourite Final Fantasy so far
I thought it had its good points, but quit around the 80-90% mark, because I just got tired of the combat. If they had made it so that you could spam your specials more freely (lower CDs), or if you had access to more than four at a time, so that you could swap between them fluidly, then it would have been a lot more fun, but too much of the combat boiled down to spamming normals.
Loving the game. Also loved Intergrade. And the older VII, VI and VIII.
"Including some lengthy cutscenes at times."
Mortym experiencing the true power of Yoshi P.
Honestly i have a lot of fun with XVI but the biggest flaw for me is the progression and itemization system.
I loooove this game
I stopped expecting FF to be FF a long time ago so I enjoyed this game alot. The story hooked me right away and kept me in.
I can’t remember a thing about the story :( Jill gets turned into a prisoner and Clive turns into Cid?
You played it with keyboard and mouse? are you nuts? 😂
it plays well with a 12-button panel mouse
Played about 20 hours on my pc. Game ran flawlessly and looked phenomenal
WHY IS HIS VOICE DIFFERENT?! I DON'T LIKE CHANGE! 😢
Ultrawide has a community fix as does the 30FPS limit on cutscene in the same mod.
Thank you for the bloat warning. That has become my biggest complaint for new games.
my most anticipated review, i’ll probably pick this up on a sale, all the boring side quest bloat i think is gonna detract from my experience personally
Game lacks outfits, would be so much better to do different quests and get various outfits...
It does have outfits to unlock and equip
@@tmbocelotThey were only added post-launch so most of us didn’t really get a chance to use them. Neat they added them eventually!
@@tmbocelot Don't be disingenuous. It has one alternate outfit for Clive, Joshua, and Jill, and one alternate skin for Torgal and Ambrosia. That's literally it, and they were added 3 months post-launch so almost no one got a chance to use them on their 1st playthroughs. It's better than nothing but it's still unbelievably barebones, like everything in this game.
I'm starting to learn the recent Final Fantasy games truly shine gameplaywise in the new game plus.
Yes. Sadly, this will be lost on most impatient and casual gamers.
Did u get a new mic or are you not Mortim anymore??? Your voice is oddly different.
Ive been sick
Glad you liked it! It's certainly not perfect but I definitely felt like it's a game that'll be in my heart forever. The game has high highs and low lows, BUT I think the lows actually work in benefit of the highs, making them shine more brightly.
Really appreciate your videos!
I really enjoyed this game for about 10 hours then the rest was an absolute slog.
man there is so much going on on the screen, can it be toned down? my eyes hate it hahaha as beautiful as it looks
U can add more fx so the screen is nonstop flashing lights
Legit the entire time I played I wished you could remove screenshake, camera pans with some moves, and tone down the insane particle effects
It is a bit of a problem to be honest, sometimes you have to dodge on instinct because you literally can't see the enemy you're hitting
your review must be the most fair take out of everything on internet
I bought this game expecting to be full blown action rpg with banger music ,have great time on PS5 year ago and Platinum it
I feel like they got a lot of the big things right, but really fell down on the small details. They should have done more to encourage mixing up your build as you got new powers, better paced the side quests, added a little depth to the crafting, etc... But I enjoyed the story and the world, and the gameplay.
The only way I got to the credits and through the dlc is CONSTANTLY just mixing up my loadout just for the hell if it.
I enjoyed this game, combat was fun, but I really didn’t like the siloed approach to the maps, and the complete lack of “RPG” systems really killed my desire to play more after initially beating the game
an incredibly level headed and fair review, which is incredibly refreshing. most other takes on it are very polarized. I've been a huge fan of this dev team's other work, so it took me a while to really acknowledge the flaws you've articulated really well, but in the end it's still a very good, but flawed game. I hope they learn some lessons and improve for the next one.
It's a solid 8/10 for me overall. pretty fun action game with great spectacle.
Terrible final fantasy game though. As a FF game it's like a 4/10 for me.
It was fun enough but not what I wanted.
Played the demo and while I liked the story I didn't quite enjoy the combat which I felt was more flash than substance. Too many button presses to kill most enemies, too many encounters that look like some world ending cataclysmic event, which felt silly for a more adult themed story. It was actually quite disappointing for me when I realized I haven't played a new FF game since 12 and playing 6-12 + tactics and some of the other squaresoft games of the snes/psx era were some of my fondest moments playing video games as a youth. Oh well. I might pick it up on a steeper discount but right now there's way too many new games coming out or games releasing out of early access that I have in my backlog.
I gave up playing this game after 12 hours. I think the story was sacrificed for something that was not worth it. It was as indulgent as FFXV's story was. Characters turned into nothing more than caricatures. No one said you cannot have fun with the characters, if they have sad back stories, but apparently FFXVI forgot that. They should have taken a page out of Yakuza's playbook and added some fun side quests to get more mileage out of these characters. I was tired of all of them after just 12 hours of gameplay.
This sounds/looks like FFXIII all over again, except they went full-on action combat here, which is what they always wanted to do with FFXIII. Linear hallways and "hunt" missions galore!
*edit* Also I think non-FF fans will actually really dig this game, since it shares so very little from the franchise. (not a bad thing objectively, just different)
I Love It \o/ I dont mind them going to RPG.. lots of fun … No problems playing on GeForce Now so 4080 max ram Looks Awesome !!!
So I eventually just stopped playing, I’ll go back and finish it at some point. I stopped about 2 hours after Titan. I really liked Garuda’s arc/character and va. I really liked pieces of this game, but on the whole it really went ‘game of thrones’ for the sake of being complex. That’s kind of a shame, since the characters really were the best part imho. Clive is a bit weak, but he grew on me. Cid is fantastic, Joshua is great so is Martha etc; some of the main enemies have good depth. Idk, it was almost there. The lack of customization and gear depth hurt it a bit, and the arpg nature was okay, if a bit underwhelming. Making FF a character action game probably wasn’t what I, personally, wanted but I gave it a good shot
Game is not for me. I finished most FFs from 1 to 13-2. (excluding 11 and 14 as those are MMOs)
But with the start of Lightning Returns and the whole shift towards action combat I personally lost all interest because I suck at action combat. It just isn't fun.
So in my books FF is dead and I switched to other more classical JRPGs like Chained Echoes.
This is a very underwhelming jrpg. Good character action game though. Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin has way more rpg mechanics than this.
While you’re correct, if you went into this thinking it was laden with traditional JRPG systems then I suppose you were either misinformed or unable to adapt. Square misses the ball sometimes but for what they aimed for they really nailed the DMC vibe while holding on to more mature FF aligned themes. They couldn’t have made it more clear that they weren’t going with a traditional JRPG route with their pre launch hype.
I think the old heads who still think an ATB system is relevant will always be mad though. I used to be one of them but ended up loving this action style.
@@DL-cs2cj FF7 Remake is one great compromise between trying something "new" but not abandoning what made a battle system for an FF game.
@@geneal1989and I really didn’t like FF7R. A worse take on the story, dialogue bloat with side characters, same problem with side quests, and not picking traditional ATB or action made it mediocre in both imo
@@DL-cs2cjyeah I couldn’t finish it. The combat felt so repetitive and dull, too many hallway walking moments and it was painful listening to the corny dialogue out loud with conversation choreography
@@DL-cs2cj Thought it was gonna have at least elemental weaknesses, a meaningful gear system and manageable party members. Even FF15 had those. Granted, party management was added through updates for FF15.
See I messed up because I decided to do every side quest during my first playthrough. Man by the time I finished the game I couldn’t even tell you what the plot was about.
The side quests by the last third of the game were atrocious. I joked with myself at the time how these green markers are like a plague and it's spreading. They are so generic, and they kept coming in massive numbers.
You have adhd lmao
@@FrozenAXL I agree, my brain was on auto pilot after I hunted down all the marks. Not a bad game tho, certainly better than 15 😂
@@REDEEMERWOLF It’s possible. I meant to reply yesterday but, I forgot 😂
Hi! Thanks a lot for the review. Very instructive as always. I was waiting for its release on PC since its PS5 launch. I haven't played a Final Fantasy since FF12 and I had wonderful times on Mystic Quest, FF9, FF10 and FF12. I tried FF7 remake for +-10 hours but it didn't convince me. I think I'll avoid this one as well at the end. Too many other great games to play thus choices to be made.
While I found the combat to be fun and solid it's issue is that it lacks weapon variety, if Clive not only gained the Eikon abilities but also a weapon with different moveset it would help the system from getting stale.
For instance gaining Bahamut's abilities also gives Clive a lance that includes the signature _jump attack_ from the Dragoons or Titan's allowed Clive to fight bare-handed like a Monk, it would give variety while also a very _pettite_ job system like in some of the classic games.
Also visual customization would have helped, aside form Clive sword, none of the equipment visually reflects on him and to makes matters worse the game does provide the ability to switch outfits for Clive and some other character but is barely worth it since all of them just get *a single alternate outfit* and aside from maybe Jill the defaults look better.
Bro is definitely a magician there's no way he can complete all these games in a 24-hour day! Took me a week just to get through Space Marine 2 and I like that game LOL I'm just joking so save yourself some time of replying that he posts his steam page publicly to see his completion rate.
Been no-lifing this since Monday, and I'm just finishing. Great game, and it made me a fan of Square. Good time since they're free of Sony money hats.
The one thing I'll disagree with is that the fetch quests are pointless... All but a couple had great stories to them.
So flashy and quick... no my cup of tea. Probably will buy it during sale and play on easiest difficulty/with "easy mode" items equiped. Thats not true FF game for me...
So far I'm enjoying it. I love the PS1 era of final fantasy and would have preferred a party based rpg. For that reason I wasn't planning on playing it. But I picked up the demo and enjoyed it enough that I bought it.
I still don't love the change to action but what they did really well is that they made the easy mode option still feel engaging enough to not make it too much of a chore to enjoy the rest of what it offers. Especially in boss fights. They really are spectacular.
The gums flapping during side quests was also hilarious in Visions of Mana.
I'm waiting for this to price drop to 60 or 50 percent. I don't care much for the direction of FF of late. FF15 was a step away from what I wanted from an FF game...FF Remake was as well. I haven't played the other newer ones yet. So while I still want to experience these games as an FF franchise fan...I'm in no rush.
I loved it and played it 3 times already. The story is gripping, presentation is great and the combat is serviceable. Most importantly, the lore was intriguing. I wish a XVI-2 or prequel or spin off is in the works because not only I feel attached to Clive Jill Joshua etc, I also feel attached to Valisthea as a whole
I don't understand why they spend millions of dollars making these games without asking if it's fun before releasing it.
Is there even any point to do the side quests apart from the achievements? I doubt they give out any substantial gear that could've excuse the lack of story these things have....
If I ever play this game is may be one of the few RPGs where I actively work towards ignoring the side quests and just do the story quests for all the epic stuff and interesting story that is in there. Everythin else is just a waste of time.
this game was fun when it was on point but it had so much down points that i will never replay this game ever again. i also refused to go through Final Fantasy mode after the slog to clear it the first time. Story was good though. They def did a good job on this game but def on my low for FF games. It ranks just above FF13 for me.
Dude I loved this game, first final fantasy game I ever played and I just was completely enthralled by it. Tried to get into the other ones but I’m not just a turn based kinda guy, hoping the next one follows the same core gameplay with more hardcore rpg elements integrated into it.
The main advice I would give to people is to just avoid sidequests and only do the main story. Then it's a pretty streamlined experience.
The story and voice acting are amazing imo and everyone should experience it.
I was so excited for this game. Then i got to know they are using goddamn Denuvo nowadays
I’ve been very critical of this game, but one thing I’ll unabashedly praise is the soundtrack. I adore Final Fantasy OST’s but didn’t think any new entry would be able to break my top 3. (1. Final Fantasy 7 - 2. Final Fantasy 10 - 3. Final Fantasy 16, which knocked FF9 down)
I enjoyed the main story line a lot. That said, the volume of side quests felt excessive. They could have quartered the side quest volume and pushed that development into post-game stuff and it would have felt much better.
..download and install the ultrawide fix mod, set the FoV at a certain value and it will feel like youre playing FFXIV which is not bad itself.
This Sixteenth Final Fantasy RUclips Jazz 🎶
TBH, since FF 12, I have been a bit disappointed with the art styles. 12 was alright, but had this.....generic anime feel to me. Had things I really liked and things I really didnt. 13 felt cool, futuristic ish. Maybe a bit in the feel of FF7/FF8 crossbreed imo. And then its just generic anime dark brooder emo guy look. Nothing against any of the games gameplay or stories. Just the art is overwhelmingly generic. The vastly different looking 3d worlds of 7,8,9,10 all felt unique to their stories and styles. 12,13,14,15,16 More often than not look like super generic compared to the older titles. At least I am not enjoying the locations of the worlds in the newer series as I did in other games. Maybe its nostalgia Maybe it was jumps in GPU power that made them feel more unique.
I honestly haven’t enjoyed FF after 12. I think 15’s story was one of the best but it was told so poorly it’s almost just an insult to the player. The characters and their back stories are really good but nearly every aspect of the story thing and flow of the game are executed so badly it’s infuriating.
@@kbutta01 That whole gang of emo looking dudes turned me off at the trailers. I loved the diversity and style of characters inthe series, alwayws liked Characters like Red XIII, cait sith, Vivi, Freya, Khimari. It was always neat to see those odd characters in the universe, so when I saw the main cast is all white dudes, I kinda lost my taste for the series. I borrowed 15 from a friend but never made it past a few hours in.
@@dudarino666 I would at least recommend listening to a summary of the story and the characters. Such a good story it’s just told is the worst imaginable way. Had it been told in a classic high fantasy style it would’ve been incredible.
@@kbutta01 Will do. REcommend anyones retrospective in particular?
May the algorithm be pleased with this offering.
I posted a comment on your first impressions video that said that this game has its moments but won't really blow you away. Seems I was mostly right.
I absolutely love this game. Not blind to its issues however I think as a whole package it’s not dragged down too much for me.
i bought a ps5 to play this & rebirth. i wasn’t disappointed. pretty fun game but honestly too easy! ff9 reigns supreme
Honestly for their first try on a character action rpg it is not bad if they would iron out the flaws in the gear system ,quests and ad elemental affinity (fire enemy immune to fire) in a sequel it should be incredible
I love this game. I know it has serious problems but the story and combat was top notch for me
side quests aside , if this game had been turn based i would have put it up on my top ff games i really loved the characters and story.
Have you considered dividing your videos into ´chapters´ so people can quickly navigate to the content they´re interested in ??
He usually does it! Must have forgot this time!
I do and this one is, problem is that sometimes it takes RUclips forever to actually put them on the video's timeline. Reviews always have them in the description as well.
Final fantasy fan with 14 as my favorite. Couldn't finish the game
Engagement to feed the algorithm! I'm a big nerd for action RPGs so I'm gonna give this a shot.
When you need a video idea, i would love a video where you rank all the Final Fantasy games.
I enjoyed the story and all but not enough to finish it, lost steam not long after the second timeskip for me.
This game has been way better than expected for me. Really liking the main character and story
My problem with FF16 came after the timeskip. It went the way of GOT where the sense of distance and time disappeared.
The worst examples are the battle in the dessert and the ocean rescue.
i would have definitely played it if not for the fact that it was released as PS exclusive
Yep buying an xbox and going for lost odyssey xD love your review tho bro
Glad you enjoyed overall, it’s a great game
Great review. Pretty much if you like God of War, DBZ and Game of Thrones then you’ll probably like this game lol. I think it was a good one off game. I would like to see a more party based rpg for 17 though.
I've played the game 100% as well, and for me the story was good, for the most, although boring in the middle part. The problem I have with the storytelling in FFXVI is that cbu3 relied heavily on games of throne. They did not just get few ideas, they took charachters/concepts directly from the tv show and put them into the game, and the result is that for me the story was not that original, since it mimicked GoT in many ways.